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16721

Referred to as Nilson Ole Bergh on Luthard’s death certificate.

Ole is not listed with his family in the 1865 Norwegian census.

Birth information from Hermund.

According to his wife’s brother’s notes, maintained in the family by Hermund, Ole departed Norway on Friday, October 23, 1874, at 4:00 PM. He departed Stavanger for Hull aboard the feeder ship Argo after having been brought over to Stavanger from Mosterøy by his future brother-in-law, David Nicolaison. At this point, Ole was engaged to Tabitha and she would apparently depart later for the U.S.

According to one of his great-grandsons, there were two Ole Nilsons who were pastors within the Evangelical Norwegian Luthern Church in Minnesota. This Ole added the surname Bergh as a way to differentiate himself and get his mail.

One of Hermund’s sources says that Ole studied for a year at Augsburg before being sent out to Yellow Medicine County.

A history of Norwegian Lutheran pastors in America has this entry for Ole:

Berg, Ole Nilsen.
Ord. 1875. Konferentsen, 1875—90, Forenede kirke, 90—96,
Frikirken, 97—.
F. i Sjernerø, Ryfylke, Kristiansand, 13 mars
1842, af Nils O. Næsheim og Lisbeth O. (f. Jelsa),
frekv. Hjelmeland sem., 60 — 62, Kristiansand sem.,
64 — 66 (seminarist), udv. 74, frekv. Augsburg
Sem., 74—75 (C.T.), prest, Montevideo (Camp
Release, St. Petri og Brønø mghdr. osv.). Minn.,
75—83, Audubon, Minn., 83—05, Climax, Minn.,
05— visitator, 89—93. *Tabitha N. Edland, 75.

Shown as Ole N., age 37, in the 1880 census. The family was living in the town of Lisbon, Yellow Medicine County and consisted of Ole, Tobitta, 26, Eliza, 4, and Constance, 2.

The family was living in Becker County, Audubon Township, Minnesota, at the time of the 1885 Minnesota State Census. Also apparently living with the family were 3 native-born Norwegian women: Inga L. Aarstad, 14; Elisabel Enokson, 30; and Bertel Vaagedahl, 28.

They were still in Becker County, Audubon Twp, at the time of the 1895 Minnesota census. O.N. had been in Minnesota for 19 years and 4 months and had been in the enumeration district for 11 years, 10 months.

The family was still living in Audubon, Becker County, in the 1900 census.

The family (Manda and Gerhard were still living at home) was in Climax, Vineland Twp, Polk County in the 1910 census.

Living at 118 North 5th Street in Montevideo in the 1920 census. The family is Ole N., 77, Tabetie, 65, and Manda, daughter, 30. Ole is a pastor in the Norwegian Lutheran Church and Manda is a clerk at a doctor’s office.

O. N. emigrated in 1874.

He was a Free Church pastor who began his ministry in 1876.

He was the fourth pastor of the Ringsaker Lutheran Free Church of rural Buxton, Belmont Twp, Traill County, North Dakota. That congregation was organized in 1891. His stay in North Dakota must have been brief.

His son-in-law Ludwig Lima was his doctor and was the informant for his death certificate. Ole died from Bright’s disease and heart lesions. He had lived in Montevideo for six years and died at 118 N 4th. His parents were Nils Nilson and Elizabeth Olson.

BERGH, Ole Nielson (I8157)

16722

Referred to as Rev.

EGER, Olaf E (I27937)

16723

Referred to as Rev. Hugh John McVety.

MCVETY, Hugh John (I34113)

16724

Referred to by Alison as Berit Andersdatter Ellestad

Shown in the 1865 census as Berit Andersdatter.

Arrived in the U.S. on 11 Jun 1877 as Berit Ellestad aboard the Brittanic.

Described by Rose as “a big fat woman.”

According to Evey, Betsy was living in or near Mayville, North Dakota, in 1890.

Called “Bergie P” in Ida’s baptismal record.

In the 1930 census, she is a widow and is living with her daughter Lydia and family in Bingham Twp, Traill County, North Dakota.

Not in the 1940 census. Not in the death records of either Minnesota or North Dakota.

THOMPSON, Berit (Betsy) (I1642)

16725

Referred to by Alison as Erik Anderson Ellestad. Other names for Erik were THOMPSON, Edward A, THOMPSON, Erick Andrew and THOMPSON, Ernie A. Shown in the 1865 census as Erik Andersen.

dwfrench1 has no information on Erick’s wife or their descendants.

Family residence at the time of Erick’s birth: Høine Gård, Lomen Sogn, Valdres, Oppland Fylke, Norway

Naturalization as reported by Alison: 21 October 1897, 7th Judicial District Court, Long Prairie, Todd Co., Minnesota. Witnesses: E. C. Ellestad and Ben Gilbertson. Erick provided documentation that he made his initial declaration to become a US Citizen in the District Court of Dakota County, Minnesota. E. C. Ellestad may be Endre/Andrew Ellestad, perhaps the brother of the wife of Erik’s brother Tom and perhaps a cousin of Erik and Tom.

Came to live with Ole and Rose, apparently after his wife died.

Came to the U.S. in the spring of 1877 according to his obituary in the Northfield Independent on May 20, 1948. After their arrival in the U.S., Erick, his parents, brothers, and sisters lived in Farmington with Peter and Knute Thompson, his father’s brothers who “had already come and established homes. They made their home with them until they bought a farm in New Market by 1878. Erick attended public school in Dakota County. At the age of 21 his brother and he went to South Dakota to take homestead land, settling near Fredrick on a farm acquired by pre-emption. (Evey quotes her mother describing this as, “Someone had had a homestead there and had left it so [Erick] went to the courthouse and got a right to take that, you know, buy it.”) He, and later with his wife Gunhild, lived on their claim until 1890 when they moved to Hatton, N.D. (Rose said that the farm in South Dakota has “dried out.”) In 1892 or 1893, they moved to Clarissa, Minnesota. (Rose implied that they were going to Todd County because “Andrew Ellestad” lived there.) After a stay there of 25 years, he, with his family, moved to Waubun, and in 1940, he and his wife, whose health was failing, moved to Minneapolis.

“Mr. Thompson is survived by two brothers and one sister. Four brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. He leaves 20 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.”

Shown in the 1880 census as “Erick Thomson,” age 19, living with his parents in New Market.

Minnesota Death Certificate ID# 1948-MN-003518

In the 1900 census, Erick and Julia are living on their farm in Ward township, Todd County. The family consists of Erick, 39 (born May 1861), Julia, 31 (born January 1869), Rosie, 10 (born January 1890), Anna, 8 (born Sept 1892), Mollie, 7 (born Mar 1893), Edward, 4 (born August 1895), Melvin, 3 (born April 1897), and Ellen, 1 (born Oct 1898). Erick and Julie had been married 10 years and Julia had had 6 children, all living. Rosie had been born in South Dakota, Anna in North Dakota, and the other children in Minnesota. Erick emigrated in 1877, Julia in 1887. Their farm is apparently mortgaged.

They are on the same farm in Ward Township at the time of the 1910 census in late April. The family is shown as Ernie A., 49, Julia, 42, Molley, 17, Eddie, 14, Melvin, 13, Ellen, 11, Ida, 9, George, 6, and Clarence, 4. Ernie and Julia had been married for 20 years. Julia had had 9 children, all 9 still living. They now own the farm free and clear, no mortgage.

In the “Benton, Meeker, and Todd Counties Minnesota Farm Directory, 1913-1914” (probably 1914 for Todd County), the Erick A. Thompson farm is shown as being in Sections 6 and 7, Ward Township, Todd County, Browerville Post Office. In addition to Erick A., the farm household consists of Julia, spouse, and Melvin, Ella, Ida, George, and Clarence, children. They had been in the county for 21 years.

The 1914 land ownership map of Ward Twp, Todd County, Minnesota, shows that “A E Thompson” owned 40 acres in the southeast corner of Section 6 and Julia H Thompson owned 100 acres across the road in the northeast corner of Section 7.

In March of 1920, the census indicates that the Thompsons were living in Lake Grove Township, Mahnomen County, Minnesota. Clarence, Melvin, and George were still at home.

They were in the same place at the time of the 1930 census. Erick A. is shown as 61, his wife Gunhild is shown as 62, George is 26 and Clarence is 24. The family does have a radio. (Erick was 68 at the time, of course. The census taker may have mistaken Erick’s claim that he was born in 1861.) The date of emigration for Erick is shown as 1884 and 1886 for Gunhild.

In the 1940 census, Erick, Julia, and Clarence lived on the family farm in Lake Grove Twp, Mahnomen County, Minnesota. They lived in the same house in which they had lived in 1935.

After his wife died, he moved in with Rose and Ole Ellingboe.

His obit said that he had been a patient in Sanford Hospital in Farmington for six months. He had moved his family to Clarissa in 1892 and stayed there for 25 years during which time he helped establish a church and a school, was a township supervisor, and served on the school board. He moved to Waubun in about 1917 and then, with his wife’s health failing, he and Julia moved to Minneapolis in 1940. After her death he stayed mostly with Ole and Rose.

His obit claimed that he was survived by two brothers and one sister (John, Johnnie, and Belle) and was preceded in death by four brothers and two sisters.

THOMPSON, Erik (Erick) Andrew (I219)

16726

Referred to by Alison as Marit Andersdatter Ellestad. The 1900 census shows her birth year as 1867.

Died at home (3338 Oakland Avenue S., Minneapolis) of cardiovascular renal disease brought about by pneumonia). She had been sick for 3 years.

Evey quotes her mother, Rose, as saying, “That Aunt Mary, you know, the Willson girls’ mother, you know, she was a darling. She always had to go and meet everybody, and have everybody over to her house, and she always had such nice food and nice house and the girls were so nice.”

THOMPSON, Mary (I1688)

16727

Referred to in Find A Grave as the Reverend Clarence Sego and so indicated on his gravestone.

SEGO, Clarence E (I14919)

16728

Referred to in his wife’s obit as Dr. Donald R. Lannin.

LANNIN, Donald Rowe (I13268)

16729

Referred to in his wife’s obit as Dr. Frank T. Maxson.

In the 1950 census, he was a medical doctor in Seattle. His three-person household included his wife Marie and Marie’s 19 year-old daughter, Ann Gronvold,

MAXSON, Frank Theodore (I15766)

16730

Referred to in one file as Dr. Bartholomew Vernace.

VERNACE, Bartholomew (I27632)